Edit: O P says the article headline was changed, and the post title has been corrected now. So removed my downvote, leaving this for the record. I hate deleted comments.
Downvoted for the shit title. Article headline says £19 a year. £94 over a random 5 year period, may as well say it goes up by £1880 per century…
That said, it’s another shitty case of socialise the losses caused by mismanagement.
Legal tender is only relevant for debts paid in courts etc. who have to accept the cash. It doesn’t apply in commercial businesses. Not sure how a bar/restaurant would deal with it if you only have cash and they don’t want to accept it, but for petrol stations it’s standard practice to get you to fill out a form promising to pay within a week if you can’t pay, for example because your bank card does not work.
Same in the UK by the way. Business are not obliged to accept cash, and plenty of them don’t. So if you only have one way of paying, either cash or card, better check first if the accept it.
I agree, they haven’t got that fine, never mind actually paid it. But it would be about a third of their profits, not exactly negligible, and it could double for repeated offences.
I’m not saying it can’t be done. But a larger heat pump and replacing all radiators drives up the cost, there is not always space for a bigger radiator, (and water tank), and while higher flow temperatures are possible, it tend to reduce efficiency. Sometimes it’s just not worth the investment, not helped by the big gap between gas and electricity prices in the UK
Something to do with physics. It’s not just about the heat output from a gas boiler vs heat pump. It’s the output from the radiator to the room that matters. For the same output, a gas boiler heats the water to a higher temperature than a heat pump. Which means a radiator gives out more heat to the room. As an extreme example, if it is freezing outside and the heat pump produces a lot of water at 15c, it may have a high thermal output but still wont keep your room warm. If it produces water at 30c, the radiator will transfer some heat to the room, but unless the radiator is very big or the room is well insulated, probably not enough.
Link me to a heat pump that produces water for central heating at 70C or more. Typically, flow temperature is closer 40C, which won’t heat the average house unless you increase (possibly double) the size and/or number of radiators. Which is expensive and not always feasible. You can run heat pumps at higher flow temperatures, but that reduces their efficiency. Don’t get me wrong, i think they are great. But successfully retrofitting to old UK housing stock needs expertise that is in short supply.
Heat pumps are great when the house is designed for it. Average uk house with shitty insulation and radiators that are unable to heat the room unless the water is really hot - it’s not going to work well.
Only six smaller airports have installed the new (bigger, heavier) scanners needed. All bigger airports have missed the deadlines. Not enough space, floor not strong enough etc.
And now it appears the new scanners cannot be relied upon.
Part of me would like to see him try and march through Poland. It may be the quickest way to end Putin